A momentary mistake cost a lot! How Did One Investor Lose $3 Million in Seconds?

One crypto para An unfortunate incident happened to his investor and his mistake cost him $3.08 million.

On-chain data analysis platform LookonchainAccording to ‘s post, a cryptocurrency trader lost $3.08 million after accidentally pasting the wrong wallet address.

As a result, although this situation seemed simple, a momentary mistake he made cost him millions of dollars.

According to the data, The investor mistakenly transferred 7 million PYTH, equivalent to $3.08 million, to the wrong address.

According to Lookonchain, although the investor made the copy-paste mistake, a crypto scammer was also involved.

Accordingly, the fraudster created a wallet address with the same first four characters as the correct deposit address to defraud investors. 0.000001 to the fraudster victim Solana (SUN) By sending it, it created a transaction record in the investor’s transaction history. This led to the investor making a mistake with his wallet address and losing $3.08 million.

“Be sure to double-check your address before making a money transfer!

For convenience, do not copy addresses from your transaction history!

Someone who copied the wrong deposit address from their transaction history lost $3.08 million.

A fraudster created an address that was identical to the first 4 characters of the correct deposit address and sent 0.000001 SOL to the victim, causing the fake address to appear in the transaction history.

The victim was careless, when he saw that the first 4 characters matched, he copied the address directly from the transaction history without double-checking.

As a result, he transferred 7 million PYTH ($3.08 million) to the victim.

What a painful and expensive lesson!”

*This is not investment advice.